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Word: arene (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1980-1989
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...prizefights, his favorite entertainment ("I enjoy being at a fight, I think, more than anything. The simplicity of it: two guys, no zone defenses"), Madden stirs more ripples of recognition than the actors and actresses, along with a surprising level of affection. "There aren't a lot of big, fat, redheaded people like me," he shrugs. Madden does a good deal of shrugging. For an analyst, he is not very analytical about himself. "I've ! never been caught up in that stuff. If you start believing you're somebody special, you'll start acting that way, and pretty soon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: John Madden: I'M Just a Guy | 1/11/1988 | See Source »

...lawsuits have been filed in the past 15 years over eye injuries resulting from exploding soft-drink caps. Some beverage companies, such as Canada Dry and Schweppes, put labels on their products to tell consumers that they should open the bottles carefully. But, complains King, "many companies still aren't warning people to point the things away from your face when you open them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ACCIDENTS: A Costly Pop In the Eye | 12/21/1987 | See Source »

...Fifty missiles will become harpoons for the Soviet whaling industry. They won't need many, since there aren't that many whales left. The Russians have spent the last 20 years killing off most of the whales in the world because they're stuck in the 19th century and can't make vegetable oil out of chemicals like the rest...

Author: By Bentley Boyd, | Title: 101 Uses for a Dead Missile | 12/15/1987 | See Source »

Like Cummings, Makris notes changes in the student body. In the past undergraduates were "very immature." In those days, she explains, "they had never left home, and they needed guidance. Now they are more mature, and having left home several times during high school, they aren't completely lost in college...

Author: By Wendy R. Meltzer, | Title: Half-century Veterans Chronicle Changes | 12/14/1987 | See Source »

...percent were I.V. drug users and only 38 percent of gay men. Only in San Francisco do the majority of AIDS cases involve homosexuals. If they don't know by now what they have to do to stay alive, nothing anyone can say is likely to help. And condoms aren't of much use on dirty needles...

Author: By Steven Lichtman, | Title: Political Machines | 12/10/1987 | See Source »

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